yes, but it never stops being funny so thanks for the reminder
love to watch the real-time devaluation of this goofy shit
It’s so silly, the miracles are so tame, but they are also in a bind, because we can’t just stop getting saints. They must’ve focus grouped the shit out of this
Group sainthood is a thing. For example, 2000 of the priests executed by anarchists during the Spanish civil war were proposed to sainthood, of which 233 were canonised in one event in 2001 by pope JP2. There were even some controversies about them being fascist shits but JP2 told the malcontents he don’t care and shut up (he also lied, he does care, he very much liked nazis).
There is also the Ten Thousand Martyrs, allegedly crucified on the orders of emperor Diocletian, but even church can’t agree if they even existed or it’s just a legend (of course in reality it’s just a legend that went viral as a meme in XIV and XV century).
Neat! I meant focusgroup as in they tested large groups of people to see the public would respond to the idea of a saint from the 00’s and who that should be. I’m imagining a cardinal in a room with nonas and a one-way mirror with the pope on the other side.
“Now-a what if-a we got a saint and he said as a little Bambino?”
The nonas murmur
“What if he was-a a little rascal?”
One of them takes off a shoe, ready to throw it
“What if he was-a a good boy, never did nothing wrong?”
…
“What if he helped his nona with logging on to Facebook to see what her children are doing?”
Standing ovation. The cardinal gives a thumbs-up to the mirror, the pope returns it, the cardinal doesn’t see it.
I like it when all the things I don’t like neatly combine themselves into one thing.
Patron saint of influencers
youth pastor voice Y’know who was the first influencer? Jesus. [turns chair backwards]
I sped read over it. My condolences to his family. Did the 15 year old do something cringe worthy of note? Seems like the pope is just being kind to what is no doubt a grieving family.
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Am I supposed to dislike him?
Well it’s not just about the pope being kind. This kid is supposedly important to the church because he made a website that documents every recorded instance of Eucharistic miracles, i.e. all those times when the bread and wine totally turned into real human flesh and blood (trust me bro). which is weird to me, because isn’t that supposed to happen every time?
I don’t think anyone is really hating on this dead child, personally I find it a bit sad that he was indoctrinated to the degree that he spent his very short time on Earth on some ridiculous cult bullshit
Unsolicited theology
which is weird to me, because isn’t that supposed to happen every time?
Nah, the species of the host remain after transubstiation normally, as in the physically observable qualities of the bread and wine. The transubstiation happens metaphysically, which only makes sense if you detach the meaning of an object “being” something (being bread or being the body of Christ in this case) from what you observe physically. The thing that sets the eucharistic miracles apart is that both the physical and metaphysical parts of the host are transformed.
Makes sense though, if Catholics always expected the bread to turn into a bleeding piece of flesh then it would make Mass very disappointing when that hasn’t happened in a regular Sunday Mass in 2000-ish years.
https://uscatholic.org/articles/201310/how-many-saints-are-there/
Revisions to the canonization process in 1983 ensured we will see more saints in the future. John Paul II eliminated the office of Promoter of the Faith, or, as it’s more commonly known, the Devil’s Advocate, a canon lawyer tasked with arguing against a person’s possible canonization. Consequently, John Paul II canonized more saints than the popes from the previous 500 years combined.
The boomers turned sainthood into a participation trophy lmao.
